The Amazing Race 9 is the ninth season of the reality television show, The Amazing Race. It premiered on February 28, 2006 and ended on May 17, 2006 on CBS. The entire season was released on DVD (exclusively only through Amazon.com) on October 23, 2012.[1]

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Synopsis

The three-time Emmy Award-winning reality adventure series returns to its international format where teams of two will travel to exotic locations, spanning five continents, with stops in the Middle East, Moscow and Sicily, to name a few. The 11 teams will compete against one another in a race around the world for a $1 million prize.[2]

Development

The show moved to a new timeslot of Wednesdays at 8 p.m., starting with the sixth episode.

Applications for this season were due on July 25, 2005 while interviews were conducted in October 2005. Filming began on November 7, 2005 and finished on December 3, 2005. This season traveled a total of 59,000 miles (95,000 km) across 10 countries in five continents.

Duracell, Travelocity, T-Mobile were the official sponsors during this season and provided prizes throughout the race to winning teams on certain legs.

Leaderboard

This chart shows each teams ranking per leg according to their official check in at the Pit Stop. However, time penalties issued before the start of the next leg due to improperly performed tasks are not reflected here.

Notes:1: Leg 3 was double-length, with two Detours and two Roadblocks, shown over two episodes. The placements listed in the first column reflect the order teams arrived at the leg's halfway point.
2: Ray & Yolanda (who initially arrived 2nd) and BJ & Tyler (5th) were each issued a 15-minute penalty for taking a bus instead of a train all the way to the Isthmos Train Station. While the penalty resulted in Ray & Yolanda dropping to 3rd, BJ & Tyler's placement was not affected. Lake & Michelle were eligible to be penalized for the same infraction, but they were the last team to arrive to the pit stop, resulting in their elimination.
3: While neither Ray nor Yolanda was shown performing the Roadblock on the final leg before arriving at the Finish Line, a montage shown on The Early Show the next day showed Yolanda as the member who had done the Roadblock task. This is included in the Roadblock count.
4: The finishes in the first half of the superleg in Leg 3 is not counted as part of the average. Only the final finish in the leg is counted toward the average.

Trivia

Franchise

First time visits to Sicily, Greece, Oman, and Japan.

First season that in which all teams were not bunched together at the mid-point of the Double-Length Leg.

First season to have two all-male teams to finish in 1st and 2nd place respectively.

US

This season marked the number of 100 teams to ever participate on the Race.

First season in which teams had to drive in every leg.

Last season to implement the non-elimination penalty where the last team to arrive at the non-elimination leg were required to turn over all the money they accumulated throughout the race and not receive any money on subsequent leg.